The To-Do List: Lunar New Year parties, Tommy Kha and 250 years of American art
This week, NKA Gallery shows work by Black male artists, Opera Memphis presents a political thriller and you can learn to play the harmonica (for free).
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January 2023
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The To-Do List: Photos at Tone, AI at MoSH and two Dolly Parton parties
This week, the late George Hunt has a posthumous exhibition, Playhouse presents the story of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys” and Black Lodge hosts a showtunes rave.
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The To-Do List: Beer for wizards, Sondheim’s greatest hits and MLK Day events
This week, a TheatreWorks play centers on Chicago’s Pekin Theater, the Mid-South’s wilderness is on display at the Dixon and the 1980s are back at Minglewood.
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The To-Do List: Artists go incognito, Dan Montgomery’s back and the Brooks gets ‘wild’
This week, manifest your dreams with a vision board, or learn the arts of mindfulness and origami. Plus, Lisa Marie Presley will be in town for Elvis’ birthday weekend.
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December 2022
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The To-Do List: New Year’s Eve edition
We’ve got ideas for your New Year’s Eve, including an art party, a rap show and a Victorian six-course meal. Plus, some places are still celebrating Christmas.
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The To-Do List: Liberty Bowl, Grizz watch party and a place to cry on Christmas Day
This week, watch “Home Alone” on the big screen, see Chris Gales at the Westin and spend Christmas night with The Sheiks.
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The To-Do List: Victorian caroling, Christmas on Beale and Corey Feldman
This week, cuddle up by a fire pit near the river, celebrate Latin American and Caribbean holiday traditions and get buck at Imagine Vegan Cafe.
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The To-Do List: Raised By Sound, Emily Dickinson on stage and stumbling Santas
This week, Crosstown Concourse and Overton Square light up the night, a photo exhibit offers a glimpse into evictions and a folk music concert raises funds for the aquifer.
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November 2022
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The To-Do List: Memphis gets lit, plus WinterArts and Lil Buck
This week brings holiday lights (and Lizzo lasers) galore, a chance to hike off Thanksgiving excesses, monster trucks and various adaptations of the classics.
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The To-Do List: Christmas creep, Reba, and Cory Branan’s album release
This week, Devan Shimoyama discusses his portraits of queer Black men, a Memphis publishing icon signs his first novel and a pop-up offers Thanksgiving dinner without the meat.
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The To-Do List: Memphis Black history through photos, film and music
This week, get into the holiday spirit with drag, take a tour of fall foliage and drink while you shop.
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The To-Do List: Downtown has a field day, and Bigfoot stomps in one last time
This week, The PRLVG plays a free happy hour show, Visible Music College students drum for 24 hours and coffee lovers perk up at the Grind City Coffee Xpo.
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October 2022
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The To-Do List: Dancing vampires, brewing witches and the ‘Evil Dead’
This week offers Halloween happenings galore; plus, the Buckman Arts Center turns 25 and Rick Springfield plays Graceland on “General Hospital” fan weekend.
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The To-Do List: Watch movies, buy art, honor your dead
This week, metalsmiths repair your broken stuff, brewers descend on Cooper-Young and Chicago comes to Memphis.
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The To-Do List: ‘Stranger Things’ with lasers and the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul
This week, festivals offer gourmet food and hundreds of wines and beers, Geoff Calkins moderates a sports talk and PRIZM Ensemble plays the works of Amanzi Arnett.
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The To-Do List: Wattstax, Weird Al, ‘Pretty Woman’ and Nasty Women
This week, original members of The 24-Carat Black stop at Stax, the Broad Avenue Arts District gets a “Paint Memphis” makeover and soul legend Mavis Staples plays GPAC.
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September 2022
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The To-Do List: Gonerfest, Veganfest, Arcade fest and Martin/Short
This week, Crosstown Arts screens a Japanese gangster film, Cynthia Daniels hosts five parties in one and the Pink Palace Crafts Fair is back for the 50th time.
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Five fall concerts for adventurous Memphis rock fans
From major touring bands headed to Elvis’ house to emerging Memphis groups, the fall concert calendar has some intriguing options for risk-taking rock fans.
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The To-Do List: Beer, fit, film and fall fests galore
This week, hot air balloons ascend over Collierville, dragons dance at Crosstown Concourse and stars are inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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The To-Do List: A Classic game, a weenie race and Backstreet’s back
This week, decompress with a day-long yoga fest, drink wine in the name of science and jam out to Americana music at the Lucero Family Block Party.
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Make Me a Memphian: Rocking and rolling where rock was born
From Beale Street to Overton Square and Cooper-Young, Memphis’ music, dance and theater scenes are alive and well.
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Eat, drink and even learn a little at the Museum of Science & History’s Science of Wine event
A lot of people host wine dinners or wine festivals, but this event brings the science, as well.
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August 2022
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The To-Do List: ‘Soul queen’ King, ‘Moonlight,’ and the Golden Age of Magic
This week, view the sunset with your dog, watch 2016’s Best Picture Academy Award winner on the big screen and party hop between Grind City, Wiseacre and Hampline breweries.
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The To-Do List: Splash down and drink beer with a mastodon
This week, Cowboy Mouth brings roots rock to Railgarten, Black Lodge turns back time and Emerald Theatre Company tackles anti-LGBTQ sentiment with humor.
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The To-Do List: Warm up at Shangri-La, cool down at Woodruff-Fontaine and see Hitchcock on a really big screen
This week, travel back to 1987 with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey at Malco Theatres, watch a woman swallow swords at Lafayette’s Music Room and catch the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history at the Orpheum Theatre.
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